August 2025
How to Keep the Momentum Going in Your Songwriting Practice
Staying consistent with songwriting is easier said than done. Some days you feel inspired, other days… not so much. The real challenge isn’t starting a song, it’s continuing to show up day after day, even when the spark feels like it’s gone missing. So, how do you keep the momentum going when writing songs regularly? […]
Songwriting 2.0: Is This When AI Meets the Heart of Creativity?
At a glance, this op‑ed article by Ran Geffen Levy (published August 18, 2025) in Music Business Worldwide makes a very bold claim: we’re standing on the edge of a new era in songwriting, one defined less by training and more by sheer conviction. What the Article Says Charli XCX, while accepting Songwriter of the Year at the Ivor Novello […]
Why Write Songs When It’s All Been Said? Because It Hasn’t Been Said By YOU!
Every honest songwriter hits the wall sooner or later: hasn’t everything already been said? Love, grief, hope, doubt. Same chords, same feelings. So why keep going? Well, the short answer is that songs are not news reports. They are transmissions. A transmission changes when the sender changes, when the medium changes, when the moment changes, […]
Your Song is a Message in a Bottle: Why You’ll Never Truly Know Your Listeners
Author Margaret Atwood (The Handmaids Tale) once quoted that “… you never know who your readers might be” when it came to writing output and the writers attitude towards it. Of course the quote is skewered towards authors but the full quote is below rearranged to suit the songwriter… “Releasing a song is like casting […]
33 Universal Song Themes You Can Write Today
Most great songs hang on a feeling we all know. When you write to a universal theme, you give listeners a clean way in. Pick the truth, find a specific moment inside it, and let the song do the heavy lifting. How to use this list That’s it. Keep it human and keep it close. […]